Plots in the Time of Cholera

Some References

• Berinato, Scott. “Data Science and the Art of Persuasion.” Harvard Business Review, January-February 2019, pp. 126–137, http://hbr.org/2019/01/data-science-and-the-art-of-persuasion.
• Berinato, Scott. Good Charts: the HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations. Harvard Business Review Press, 2016.
• Brinton, Willard Cope. Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts. Engineering Magazine Company, 1919.
• Chen, Chun-houh, et al. Handbook of Data Visualization. Springer, 2016.
• Cleveland, William S. The Elements of Graphing Data. AT&T Bell, 1994.

Some More

• Cook, Dianne, and Deborah F. Swayne. Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis with R and GGobi. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2008.
• Dzemyda, Gintautas, et al. Multidimensional Data Visualization: Methods and Applications. Springer Science+Business Media, 2013.
• Ellis, Laura. “Little Miss Data - Weird Graphs.” Little Miss Data, http://www.littlemissdata.com/search?q=weird%20graphs.
• Healy, Kieran. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton University Press, 2019.

Even More

• Huff, Darrell, and Irving Geis. How to Lie with Statistics. W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.
• Lidwell, William, et al. Universal Principles of Design: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design. Rockport, 2010.
• Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Simon Fraser University, 2007.
• “Results - The Visual Display of Data.” Biomedical Research: How to Plan, Publish, and Present It, by W. F. Whimster et al., Springer, 1997, pp. 70–93.

Yet Still More

• Schwab, Pierre-Nicolas. “Big Data and Ethics: How Visualization Can Screw It Up.” Into the Minds, http://www.intotheminds.com/blog/en/big-data-and-ethics-how-visualization-can-screw-it-up/.
• Sen, Amit. “Visual Thinking: The New Business Language.” Engadget, http://www.engadget.com/2016/12/14/visual-thinking-the-new-business-language/.
• Sula, Chris Alen. “The Ethics of Visualization.” Chris Alen Sula, http://chrisalensula.org/the-ethics-of-visualization/.
• Sunstein, Cass R., and Richard H. Thaler. Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness. Penguin, 2009.

One More ‘More’

• Tufte, Edward Rolf. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press, 2015.
• Wickham, Hadley. “A Layered Grammar of Graphics.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2010, pp. 3–28., doi:10.1198/jcgs.2009.07098.
• Wilke, Claus O. Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures. O’Reilly Media, 2018.
• Wilkinson, Leland. Grammar of Graphics. Springer, 2012.
• Zhu, Ying. “Measuring Effective Data Visualization.” Advances in Visual Computing Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Part III, 2007, pp. 652–661., doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76856-2_64.

Philosophical Considerations

Pragmatic Considerations

Tufte Says..

Hierarchy of Visual Comparison

Static Digital Visualizations

Interactive Visualizations

Motion Visualizations

Multi-Modal